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Oscar Wilde

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes

     -- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan 

A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

     -- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan 

I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

     -- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!

     -- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan 

My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip.

     -- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

     -- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan 

I can resist anything except temptation.

     -- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

     -- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the…

     -- Oscar Wilde

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

     -- Oscar Wilde